High School Sports

Softball: 17th Desert Mtn. Invite brings plenty of the best

Many of the best Division I and Division II softball teams in the Valley and Tucson gather Tuesday (March 18) through Saturday (March 22) at Scottsdale's Horizon Park for the 17th Desert Mountain Invitational.

A field of 26 teams are competing in the five-day event. Here are the teams entered and the schedule for the first four days of non-bracket play. The tournament breaks down to three brackets of eight teams on Saturday with the elite-8 bracket games at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and the title game at 7 p.m.